The 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours to celebrate the Queen's Official Birthday were announced on 7 June 1999 in New Zealand and Niue, and on 12 June 1999 in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms.Bahamas list: Belize list: Grenada list: Papua New Guinea list: St Lucia list:St Vincent and the Grenadines list: Solomon Islands list: Tuvalu list:
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged firstly by the country whose ministers advised the Queen on the appointments, then by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.
United Kingdom
Life peer To be a Baroness Usha Kumari Prashar, CBE. Chairman, Parole Board for England and Wales. Vivien Helen Stern, CBE. Secretary-General, Penal Reform International. To be a Baron The Right Honourable Sir Robert Fellowes, GCB, GCVO, QSO. Lately Private Secretary to the Queen. Sir Norman (Robert) Foster, OM. Architect. Chairman, Foster and Partners. Sir (Ernest) Ronald Oxburgh, KBE. Rector, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. Sir Henry Dennistoun (Dennis) Stevenson, CBE. Chairman, Pearson plc and AerFi Group plc.
Privy Counsellor Edward Alan John George. Governor, Bank of England. Sir Alan (Gordon Barraclough) Haselhurst MP. Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden, Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker. Stephen Barry Jones MP. Member of Parliament for Alyn and Deeside. Giles Heneage Radice MP. Member of Parliament for Durham North.
Knight Bachelor William Norman Adsetts OBE. Chair of Governors, Sheffield Hallam University. For services to the community in Sheffield. Thomas Boaz Allen CBE. For services to Opera. John Reginald Hartnell Bond. Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc. For services to Banking. Hugh Roy Graham Cameron QPM. Chief Constable, Lothian and Borders Police. For services to the Police. Frank John Davies CBE. Chairman, Health and Safety Commission. For services to the Health and Safety of the Public. Brian Edward Frederick Fender CMG. For services to the University of Keele and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Alexander (Alex) Chapman Ferguson CBE. Manager, Manchester United Football Club. For services to Association Football. Anthony Armitage Greener. Chairman, Diageo plc. For services to the Drinks Industry. Maurice Hatter. Chairman, IMO Precision Controls Ltd. For public services. Kenneth Joseph Jackson. General Secretary, Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union. For services to Industrial Relations. Gordon Ronald Jarvis. For charitable services. Philip Stevens Ledger CBE. Principal, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. For services to Music. Professor John Stanley Marsh CBE. For services to the Agricultural Industry and to Agricultural Education. Trevor McDonald OBE. For services to Broadcasting and Journalism. Paul Maxime Nurse. Director-General, Imperial Cancer Research Fund. For services to Cell Biology and to Cancer Research. David Joseph O'Dowd CBE QPM. HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary (England and Wales). For services to Community Relations and to Standards within the Police. Professor Robert Keith O'Nions FRS. Professor of the Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, University of Oxford. For services to the Earth Sciences. Professor Richard Peto FRS. For services to Epidemiology and to Cancer Prevention. John Weddell Robb. Chairman, British Energy plc. For services to the Energy Industry. The Honourable David Sieff. For services to the National Lottery Charities Board. Robert Haldane Smith. For services to the National Museums of Scotland. Robin Richard Tilt. Lately Director General, HM Prison Service, Home Office. Professor Bernard Arthur Owen Williams. Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy and Fellow of All Souls College University of Oxford. For services to Philosophy. David Reeve Williams CBE. Leader, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. For services to Local Government and to the Local Government Association.
Diplomatic and Overseas List Arthur Gilbert. For services to the arts and culture. The Honourable Mr Justice Noel Plunkett Power. Lately Acting-Chief Justice, Hong Kong.
Order of the Bath (Military Division)
Knight Grand Cross (GCB) Royal Navy Admiral Sir Michael Cecil Boyce KCB OBE ADC.
Knight Commander (KCB) Royal Navy Admiral Nigel Richard Essenhigh. Army Lieutenant-General John Freegard Deverell OBE (480284), late The Light Infantry.
Companion (CB) Royal Navy Rear Admiral Peter Michael Franklyn MVO. Rear Admiral Alastair Boyd Ross CBE. Army Major General Christopher Leslie Elliott MBE (483896), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major General Robert William Montgomery Mcafee (479425), late Royal Tank Regiment. Major General John Douglas Stokoe CBE (486748), late Royal Corps of Signals. Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Brian Campbell Mccandless CBE. Air Vice-Marshal Patrick John O'Reilly.
Order of the Bath (Civil Division)
Knight Commander (KCB) Michael George Bichard. Permanent Secretary, Department for Education and Employment. James Christopher Jenkins CB QC. First Parliamentary Counsel, Parliamentary Counsel Office. John Michael Medlicott Vereker CB. Permanent Secretary, Department for International Development.
Companion (CB) George Bertram. Director, National Insurance Contributions Office, HM Board of Inland Revenue. Edgar Vincent Buckley. Assistant Under Secretary (Home and Overseas), Ministry of Defence. David Chesterton. For services to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Edward John Watson Gieve. Director, Public Services Directorate, HM Treasury. Colin Cameron Macdonald. Principal Establishment Officer, Scottish Office. John Cameron McCluskie QC. First Scottish Parliamentary Counsel, and lately Legal Secretary to the Lord Advocate. David Edgar Joseph Nissen. Solicitor and Director General, Legal Services, Department of Trade and Industry. Gillian Mae Noble. Deputy Director, Public Services Directorate, HM Treasury. Norman Patrick Roberts. For public service. John Turner. Director, Jobcentre Services Employment Service, Department for Education and Employment.
Order of St Michael and St George
Dame Commander (DCMG) Rosemary Jane Spencer. CMG, H.M. Ambassador, The Hague.
Knight Commander (KCMG) Adrian John Beamish, CMG, lately H.M. Ambassador, Mexico City. Anthony Charles Galsworthy, CMG, H.M. Ambassador, Peking. David Glyndwr John. For services to British interests overseas. Sydney Woolf Kentridge, QC. For services to international law and justice.
Companion (CMG) David William Brewer. Lately Chairman, Sedgwick Insurance and Risk Management Consultants (China) Ltd. For services to Export. Nicholas Walker Browne. Chargé d'Affaires, Tehran. Dr John Miguel Warwick Chipman. Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies. Basil Stephen Talbot Eastwood. HM Ambassador Damascus. Cyril Glasser. For services to international law and justice. Robert Anthony Eagleson Gordon OBE. HM Ambassador Rangoon. John Douglas Kelso Grant. Lately Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. Gregory David Green. Director General, Voluntary Service Overseas. Professor David Harris. Director, Nottingham University Human Rights Centre. Charles Thomas William Humfrey. Minister, HM Embassy Tokyo. Ian Mcleod OBE MC. Lately Head of European Commission Monitoring Mission and Member of the Kosovo Verification Mission. Peter Forbes Ricketts. Deputy Political Director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. John Philip Watson. Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Royal Victorian Order
Knight Commander (KCVO) Major General Peter Aldcroft Downward CB DSO DFC. Governor of the Military Knights of Windsor. Christopher Kingston Howes CB CVO. Second Commissioner and Chief Executive, Crown Estate. Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Hugh Malcolm Ross CVO OBE. Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office.
Commander (CVO) John Hepworth Holroyd CB. Secretary. For Appointments to the Prime Minister. Stephen Mark Jeffrey Lamport. Private Secretary and Treasurer to the Prince of Wales. The Very Reverend Gilleasbuig Iain Macmillan. Chaplain to The Queen in Scotland and Dean of the Order of the Thistle. Lucy Annora Murphy LVO. Information Officer, Household of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Felicity Margaret Salisbury Murdo-Smith LVO. Information Officer, Press Office, Buckingham Palace.
Lieutenant (LVO) The Reverend William James Booth. Sub-Dean of Her Majesty's Chapels Royal and Domestic Chaplain. Dr Michael Charles de St Pierre Bunbury. Medical Practitioner. Chief Inspector Stephen Orme Burgess MVO. Royalty Protection Department, Metropolitan Police. Robert Cook MVO. Lately Inventory Clerk, Windsor Castle. Frederick Donald Fox. Milliner. William Edward Robin Hood Hastings-Bass, The Earl of Huntingdon. Racehorse Trainer. Malcolm Metcalfe. Member of the Canadian Steering Committee of The Duke of Edinburgh's Commonwealth Study Conference. Araminta Mary Ritchie. Lady in Waiting to the Princess Royal. The Reverend John Phillips Robson. Chaplain of The Queen's Chapel of the Savoy and Chaplain of the Royal Victorian Order. Robert Forbes Taylor. Trustee, United Kingdom Fund of The Duke of Edinburgh's Commonwealth Study Conference.
Member (MVO) Helen Elizabeth Asprey. Secretary to the Equerry to The Duke of Edinburgh. Roy Brown. Maintenance Manager, Buckingham Palace and Royal Mews. Jean Young Clark. Secretary to the Crown Equerry. Norman Robert Cooper. Gentleman of the Chapel Royal St James's Palace. Anne Rae Gordon. Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Tyne and Wear. Maureen Patricia Holland. Secretary, Household of The Princess Margaret Countess of Snowdon. Squadron Leader Jeremy David Marshall. Lately Pilot, 32 (The Royal) Squadron, Royal Air Force. Fiona Frances McNeile. Secretary, Royal Farms Windsor. Chief Superintendent David Stanley Reeve. Norfolk Constabulary. Lisa Penelope Sharp. Secretary, Household of The Prince Edward. Amanda Charlotte Yaxley. Lately Personnel and Administrative Manager, Household of The Prince of Wales
Royal Victorian Medal (RVM) David James Benefer. Glasshouse Manager, Sandringham Estate. Yeoman Warder Peter Birch. Chapel Clerk, Chapel Royal, HM Tower of London. Gerald Blomfield. Hairdresser. James Albert Cox. Maintenance Officer, Windsor Castle. Stephen Henry Ronald Marshall. Assistant Yeoman of the Royal Pantries. James Alexander Mcdonald. Painter, Balmoral Estate. David Arthur Pithers. Woodman, Crown Estate, Windsor. Robert Rowlands. Stud Groom, Royal Studs. Colin John Seymour. Painter, Crown Estate, Windsor. John Thomas. Estate Maintenance, Yorkshire Survey, Duchy of Lancaster.
Order of the British Empire (Military Division)
Knight Commander (KBE) Royal Air Force Air Marshal John Alexander Baird.
Commander (CBE) Royal Navy Commodore Christopher Richard Beagley. Commodore Alastair John Sym Taylor OBE. Army Brigadier Jane Mary Arigho RRC (484286), late Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. Colonel John Harry Crosland MC (483886), late The Parachute Regiment. Brigadier Andrew Stephenson Ritchie (495574), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Colonel David William Wonson (477861), late Adjutant General's Corps (Royal Military Police). Royal Air Force Air Commodore Nigel David Alan Maddox. Air Commodore Malcolm Prissick. Air Vice-Marshal Graham Skinner MBE.
Officer (OBE) Royal Navy Commander Duncan Ford. Commander Peter Gordon Hadden. Commander (now Acting-Captain) Peter Haydn Jones. Commander Christopher Fields Mervik. Commander (now Captain) Carolyn Jane Stait. Commander Barry Valentine Stonham. Major (Local Lieutenant-Colonel) Richard Alan Waterer, Royal Marines. Army Lieutenant-Colonel Gary Peter Cass (498149), The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.